TY - JOUR
T1 - State policy and the non-monolithic nature of the local school district
T2 - Organizational and professional considerations
AU - Spillane, James P
PY - 1998/1/1
Y1 - 1998/1/1
N2 - This article examines how the local school district's non-monolithic character undermines state level efforts to create more coherent guidance for instruction of teachers. Exploring two school districts' responses to a state reading policy, the author suggests that what the school district does by way of enacting state policy is not always internally homogenous: The image of the school district that emerges is one of a non-monolithic agency of instructional guidance. Attempting to unravel and explain the internal variation in the school district's response to state policy, the author considers the school district's organizational arrangements as well as the professional specializations and associations of district staff.
AB - This article examines how the local school district's non-monolithic character undermines state level efforts to create more coherent guidance for instruction of teachers. Exploring two school districts' responses to a state reading policy, the author suggests that what the school district does by way of enacting state policy is not always internally homogenous: The image of the school district that emerges is one of a non-monolithic agency of instructional guidance. Attempting to unravel and explain the internal variation in the school district's response to state policy, the author considers the school district's organizational arrangements as well as the professional specializations and associations of district staff.
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U2 - 10.3102/00028312035001033
DO - 10.3102/00028312035001033
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032268871
VL - 35
SP - 33
EP - 63
JO - American Educational Research Journal
JF - American Educational Research Journal
SN - 0002-8312
IS - 1
ER -